What's interesting this week...
Tech for Good - Issue 86
Happy Friday!
I was hoping to get this email out earlier this week but my American Thanksgiving plans prevented that from happening! To all my American readers, I hope your Thanksgiving was good and you enjoyed time with your family and friends! Today I am featuring a reads about #techforgood that I found interesting, Funding Friday will be back next week.
I wanted to highlight an app development opportunity that is open to any technology consultant or firm in Cambodia. Cambodia Living Arts asked if I could share their expression of interest call for an app developer to develop an interactive live event mobile app. If you’re interested please view their post here.
If you’d like me to share your funding call, EOI, or other #techforgood related post, please send an email to: jesse@glean.net.
I hope you have a great weekend!
Jesse
What’s interesting this week…
“We’ve seen it all before”: sketches about why so many digital tech for development initiatives fail
Tim Unwin, Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in ICT4D, wrote this fantastic article on why so many #techforgood initiatives fail. This is a common challenge we see in the industry, where we see the same types of interventions year after year. Tim highlights a few ways why this is and how we can do better as technology practitioners.
Digital ID in humanitarian contexts: Lessons learned and what’s next
Digital identity is quickly becoming the foundation of our increasingly digital and data-driven society. At the end of 2020, 1.26B Indian residents got their Aadhaar ID (99% of adults), a digital identity that is based on their biometric and demographic data. Earlier this year, the European Union announced a new digital identity framework for the EU, which will allow all citizens to prove their identity, share electronic documents, and access online services from their smartphone through a digital identity wallet. According to Gartner, by 2024, a true global, portable, decentralized identity standard will emerge in the market to address business, personal, social and societal, and identity-invisible use cases.
Cambodia e-commerce policies playing catch-up to regulate the growing sector
As Cambodia e-commerce continues its meteoric rise on the back of the pandemic, government officials are playing catch-up to regulate the sector and ensure it forges a sustainable path to success that benefits the government, the private sector, and consumers alike. The national conference on consumer protection was hosted by the Ministry of Commerce, the Consumer Protection, Competition and Fraud Repression (CCF), and the European Chamber of Commerce with support from the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
How Big Data Is Helping Transform Indonesia’s Public Transport System
The affordability of public transport in Indonesia makes it the go-to option for millions of citizens. But for some passengers, such as women, the elderly and people with disabilities, the journey is not always seamless. For instance, the lack of barrier-free walkways and other elderly-friendly infrastructure often makes movement between the waiting area and boarding point challenging for elderly passengers.
Understanding the diverse needs of Indonesia’s passengers is crucial to operating an inclusive transport system. But until recently, obtaining deep insights into rider experience involved prohibitive time and resource costs. That’s especially the case across a geography as complex as Indonesia’s, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands that spans three time zones.
Drones show promise in speeding up communication with underwater robots for ocean surveys
To conduct ocean surveys, sensors mounted on underwater robotic devices are typically used in communication with sea-surface base stations. Researchers from Japan have found a promising way to optimize this underwater communication.
In a study published this month in Remote Sensing, researchers from The University of Tokyo Institute of Industrial Science revealed that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly referred to as drones, show promise as communication bases with robotic devices known as autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for ocean surveys.